This would be like finding out terrorists struck the World Trade Center years before 2001.. Oh wait

Behold this creepy ad for a voluntary swine flu vaccine from the 70’s.

While the creepiness is timeless, the relevance comes from the recent 21st century outbreak, of which it is impossible to not be aware if you are reading this on the internet.

Remember, transferring the disease is as simple as making eye-contact, so, much like encountering a gorilla, remember to freeze in your tracks and stare at the floor if you encounter a coughing individual, taking great care to not flare your nostrils.

Grapefruit.

This commercial for flu awareness, brought to you by the Southern Australia Council for Flu and Fast Food Regulation could not have hit the Internet at a better time.

Swine flu hysteria is all over the media, and this sticky commercial is spewing icing on the cake. Just watching this commercial will make an active hypochondriac ill for weeks.

This commercial is effective so I have little to add, except that, statistically speaking, we have much bigger fish to fry on the preventable disease front. But flu is just so damn sexy, it gets all the groupies.

Not sure how someone was offended by this, but ok.

NBC Miami reports here that Mexico was so offended by this Burger King ad for the Texican Whopper that they ran and told on them to their ambassador to Spain. I am supposing this is the international diplomacy version of running and telling on someone to your parents.

Though the article mentions ‘unfair stereotyping of Mexicans’ (I am supposing the pun about a little bit of Mexican being in the burger was lost in translation) the real issue appear to be the misuse of the Mexican flag.

The real news is that there is a country that apparently takes its flag more seriously than America. I mean we let Evel Knievel run around for years dressed like an American flag.

Here is a present to the Geico cavemen fans who frequent this site. I found this fortune cookie fortune inside of an ordinary fortune cookie. Two things are unusual about this otherwise ordinary fortune: One, it doesn’t predict the future; Two, it co-opts in broken English Geico’s ‘So easy a caveman can do it’ slogan.

I guess this qualifies as word of mouth or meme marketing, since I don’t think Geico has signed any fortune cookie deals. Though you never know.

You have entered a dimension of space and also time. So, ok, it’s kind of like your own dimension. But then all this is going on too.

Sorry for anyone who had problems accessing comments over the weekend, we moved to new hosting with new php permissions, so a lot of things broked. We believe nothing else is broked, but if you find anything, let me know and I’ll unbroke it. I know a lot of video links are dead, so you don’t need to tell me about that, that is just the nature of the YouTube century that we are all living in.

I did not bother moving the forums because no one was trying to use them except spammers. The forums are in heaven now.

I thought today I’d take a long creepy look at monsterpawn.com, a pawn shop in central Illinois. When you stare into Monster Pawn, it stares back at you. Really. Look at the commercial.

It’s worth looking over the other ads on their video page. If the rule with local advertising for businesses like this is to be memorable at least they are definitely doing that right.